Dana Goldstein is an RH Reality Check staff writer and a staff writer at The American Prospect, where she covers the 2008 presidential race, education policy, women's issues, and much more. She blogs daily at TAPPED. Dana's writing has also appeared in The New Republic, BusinessWeek, The Guardian, and In These Times.

By including questions about abortion on Republican exit polls, but not Democratic ones, pollsters guarantee the media pays attention to how conservative, anti-choice voters feel about the issue, while overlooking the majority of Americans’ support for broad access to abortion and contraception.